Waiter, n.
- 1. Attendant, servant, servitor, lackey, valet.
- 2. Tray, salver.
Waiting, n.
- 1. Staying, delaying, tarrying.
- 2. Expectation, abeyance.
Wait on. Wait upon.
- 1. Attend (as a servant), perform services for, attend to, serve.
- 2. Attend, go to see, visit, call upon, pay attendance.
- 3. Follow (as a consequence), await.
- 4. Attend to, perform.
- 5. Accompany, escort, squire.
Waits, n. pl. Serenaders.
Waive, v. a.
- 1. Relinquish, renounce, surrender, remit, give up, forego, give up claim to.
- 2. Throw away, cast off, reject, desert.
- 3. (Law.) Throw away, relinquish voluntarily.
Wake, v. n.
- 1. Watch, be awake, continue awake.
- 2. Awake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep, cease from sleep.
- 3. Revel, carouse, feast, sit up late for festive purposes.